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CW may stand for:

• Centiwatt (cW), one hundredth of a watt
• Cω, a programming language
• CW complex, a type of topological space
• Carrier wave, a periodic waveform that is modulated in radio communication
• CodeWarrior, an integrated development environment by NXP Semiconductors (originally by Metrowerks) for microcontroller and microprocessor software
• Constructed wetland, a man-made wetland to treat wastewater
• Continuous wave, an electromagnetic wave of constant amplitude and frequency, interrupted durations of which were historically used to transmit Morse code, also used in radar systems
• ClarisWorks, an office suite now known as AppleWorks
• ${\displaystyle c_{\rm {w}}}$, a drag coefficient used a measure of air resistance
• Contention window, a network traffic characteristic; see IEEE 802.11e-2005 § Enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA)
• Corded Ware culture, an archaeological culture in Europe
• Chemical formula of tungsten carbide (more typically denoted WC)

• Castle Wolfenstein, a 1981 video game
• Cube World, a 2019 video game
• Content Warning, a 2024 video game

• Computerworld, an information technology magazine
• The Crimson White, a student-run newspaper of the University of Alabama

• The CW, an American television network/programming service
  • The CW Plus, a national feed of the network
  • CW Sports, a sports programming division of the network
  • The CW4Kids, American Saturday morning cartoon children's television block
  • The CW Daytime, an afternoon programming block that was broadcast on the CW
  • CW Seed, a production arm that provided original content created exclusively for digital platforms focused in the areas of animation, game shows, comedy, and digital personalities
• Creative writing, any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature
• CloverWorks, a Japanese animation studio

• Cable & Wireless plc, a British telecommunications company
• Camping World, an outdoor equipment retailer
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Curtiss-Wright, an engineering company (NYSE: CW)

• Camp Wallace, a United States Army facility
• Chemical warfare, a type of warfare involving chemical weapons
• Chemical weapon, a munition using chemical toxicity
• Chief warrant officer, a relatively low-level rank of military officer
• Cold War, the state of geopolitical tension following World War II

• Cook Islands (FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO designation), a self-governing island country in the South Pacific Ocean
• CW postcode area around Crewe, England
• Canada West, an obsolete designation for the western part of Canada
• Canada's Wonderland, an amusement park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
• County Carlow, in Ireland
• Curaçao (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code CW), a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region
• Calw, a city in southern Germany
• Chelmsley Wood, a town in England near Birmingham

• Air Marshall Islands (IATA code CW), an airline based in Majuro, in the Marshall Islands
• Calendar week
• Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal, a hymnal used by the WELS
• Clockwise, motion that proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands
• Common Worship, a liturgy of the Church of England
• Conventional wisdom, a description of ideas that are generally accepted as true
• Cruiserweight (boxing), a weight class in professional boxing between light heavyweight and heavyweight
• Content warning, warnings that a work contains writing, images, or concepts that may be harmful or distressing to some people
• Culture war, a cultural conflict between social groups
• C. W. Anderson (born 1970), a professional wrestler
• Cawang railway station, a railway station in Jakarta, Indonesia
• Cool white (about 4000 degrees Kelvin), a color temperature used for lighting; see Fluorescent-lamp formats

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